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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Since 2001, October has been designated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). This year’s theme is “Shared Responsibility”. Read more

Defining “Risk” for IT Security

When we discuss risk in IT security, what comes to mind?  Is a “critical” vulnerability on a Windows system a risk?  Is risk a high, medium, or low measurement?  What does risk tell us? Read more

3 things we can learn from the Twitter security flaw

According to the official twitter blog, the cross-site scripting programming error that allowed the recent mouse over exploit had been “discovered and patched…last month”.

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Mass Mailer – VBMania/”Here you have” Virus

A new mass mailer virus began propagating on Thursday (9/9).   Read more

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